changing default runlevel dynamically

2003-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
How can I choose the runlevel dynamically at startup through lilo menus or otherwise? I want to make a custom runlevel for powersave and such. thanx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: netenv doesn't do anything]

2003-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to install the netenv package, but beside of presenting the choice menu I don't actually see that it does anything. How do I configure it to actually make the changes ? Couldn't see any environment variables or any change to the ips. Also on that note, is it possible to configure galeon and

[Fwd: nautilus keeps scanning mount points]

2003-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I am running nautilus version 2.2.4 (from unstable) and autofs (ver 4) The problem is that Nautilus keeps probing the mount points which consequently keeps mounting the floppy and cdrom etc. This in turn occasionally pops up a browsing window (the popping up behavior comes and goes and I don't know

Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 00:31, Carlos Sousa wrote: > pstops, in the psutils package. Man is your friend. > > -- > Carlos Sousa > http://vbc.dyndns.org/ That's great, thanks! This was exactly what I needed. I used the command pstops "2:[EMAIL PROTECTED](23cm,-1cm)[EMAIL PROTECTED](23cm,13cm)" in

Re: iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-23 Thread Mark C
Once upon a time Shaul Karl was quoted as saying: > would have add LOG rules in order to try and found out what happens > to those inbound packets. Sorry I missed that off the post, logging does actually drop inbound packets on eth0 to ssh or apache, it would seem after banging my head on a wall

O.T. Replace motherboard ... advice anyone?

2003-07-23 Thread Dan.Hunt
I'm looking to replace the motherboard CPU, and re-use many of the other components of my old system. My old AMD Duron 800 has been locking up after 3 years of faithful service. These boards were suggested http://www.syntaxgroups.com/SV266A.htm and http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/pro

postfix +sasl

2003-07-23 Thread CHI
i am newibe in debian i want to ask how to set up postfix +sasl in postfix office site they only support cyrus imap but in debian it use uw-imap And then , i have installed uw-imap ssl how to use it? the last question is does download postfix.deb have support sasl i see in postfix.org it should com

Re: iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-23 Thread Mark C
Once upon a time John Hedge was quoted as saying: > Have a look at Shorewall (http://www.shorewall.net). I really want to only use standard debian packages, apart from using LIDS on a 2.4.21 kernel latter on, I have my main standalone firewall (Cisco Pix 515e), and I really want to setup a basic

Re: changing default runlevel dynamically

2003-07-23 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 10:10:13AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > How can I choose the runlevel dynamically at startup through lilo > menus or otherwise? At the LILO Prompt (after press SHIFT at the LILO XX.YY.ZZ prompt) you can append kernel parameters. If your bootimage lilo label is called Li

Re: changing default runlevel dynamically

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Micha Feigin wrote: > How can I choose the runlevel dynamically at startup through lilo menus > or otherwise? > I want to make a custom runlevel for powersave and such. Enter "Linux init 2" at the lilo bootprompt to enter runlevel 2 (where Linux should be the actual name of the boot menu e

xterm colour codes

2003-07-23 Thread David selby
I am trying to get my bash scripts to highlight some of their output in colour, a bit like ls --color It seems that I have to use ANSI esc sequences ... man xterm .. SEE ALSO resize(1), X(7), pty(4), tty(4) Xterm Control Sequences (this is the file ctlseqs.ms). http://dickey.hi

Re: iptables woes on woody, not accepting inbound connections

2003-07-23 Thread Richard Downer
Hi Mark, On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:56:48 +0100, Mark C wrote: > I can do outbound nslookup requests no problem, but it now fails to > allow inbound connections at all, to either port 80 or port 22. At a quick look I think the problem is here. > /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 22

Re: Postfix

2003-07-23 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Mick! At Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:10 Mick Reichelt wrote: > Does anyone know of a postfix-pgsql package for woody? I can't seem > to find one. According to http://www.apt-get.org/ you can find some IPv6-enabled packages at deb http://debian.fabbione.net/debian-ipv6 woody ipv6 deb-src http

Re: Network speed

2003-07-23 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:44:13PM -0400, Dan Jones wrote: > Is there a straightforward way to determine what speed (10 or 100mbs) a > NIC is running? How about to determine if it is in half or full duplex > mode? racoon:~# apt-cache show mii-diag Package: mii-diag Priority: extra Section: net In

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:07:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finally there is the output of "ps ux". I use it to verify the PID of > the ssh-agent process. For that I take the value found in the second > column, but I am not sure if "ps ux" will give me that on all/most > unices. Does anyon

Re: New packages

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 01:08:59AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I've found a rather useful little app that doesn't appear to be in the > distribution yet. How can I go about getting it in there? I have > looked through the Debian policy page, but couldn't find what I was > looking for. http:

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2003-07-23 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Ian! At Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:00 Ian Melnick wrote: > I recently upgraded to sarge, and now my samba passwords expire > every couple of weeks (i think). I also think it's using this new > password database. How do I turn off password expiration? Do only the samba passwords expire, or i

Re: xterm colour codes

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:44:57AM +0100, David selby wrote: > I cant find the control sequences document ctlseqs.ms, though I have > searched the system as root for it. .ms is the source form (it's a troff macro set). Try /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.ps.gz or /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz.

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 20:44, David selby wrote: > Joerg Johannes wrote: > >Hi everybody. > > > >I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of > > my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see > > how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or runn

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:21, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of > my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how > much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect > power jack.

Re: printer

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print Did you try to restart you computer? (sorry, couldn't resist...) joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Lexmark USB Printer

2003-07-23 Thread Tinus Kotzé
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 03:01, ghwb wrote: > Tinus Kotzé wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 03:15, ghwb wrote: > > > >>Tinus Kotzé wrote: > >> > >>>Good day > >>>I am setting up my first USB device. It is the Lexmark z25 printer. > >>>Under kprinter(add local printer) it is listed under the usb dev

Re: New packages

2003-07-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:45:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Probably, although I'm not sure how that follows from your previous > statement. If it were just a matter of getting the thing built for > upload, you could build an unstable chroot to do that. For installing it > on your system, as lo

Using exim4 with fetchmail warning

2003-07-23 Thread franck routier
Hi, I've just found that the default exim4 configuration (exim4 4.20-1 deb package) comes with no smtp_accept_queue_per_connection value. So exim4 default, which is 10, is taken as a value. So if you have a dialup connection, and fectchmail retrieves more that 10 messages in one smtp connectio

Re: xterm colour codes

2003-07-23 Thread HdV
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, David selby wrote: > I am trying to get my bash scripts to highlight some of their output in > colour, a bit like ls --color > It seems that I have to use ANSI esc sequences ... > > man xterm .. > > SEE ALSO >resize(1), X(7), pty(4), tty(4) >Xterm Control Seque

bash: can I cd from a script

2003-07-23 Thread David selby
I have a script to show a certain directory, it would be great if that script could change my pwd to that directory. Inside my script is a cd /usr/lo., however since the script automaticly runs in a subshell, when it ends my directory has not changes. I have tries export PWD=/usr/lo no

Re: xterm colour codes

2003-07-23 Thread David selby
Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:44:57AM +0100, David selby wrote: I cant find the control sequences document ctlseqs.ms, though I have searched the system as root for it. .ms is the source form (it's a troff macro set). Try /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.ps.gz or /usr/share/d

Re: New packages

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:43:05AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:45:22AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Certainly, if you're keen, you'd be welcome to apply to join the project > > and do it yourself. However, that takes some time and implies a level of > > long-term com

Re: Using exim4 with fetchmail warning

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:53:18AM +0200, franck routier wrote: > I hope this will save some of you the loss of some maybe important or > urgent messages Maybe a warning could be put in debian's package > doc ? If you have a suggestion for the package you should file a bug report rather than t

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-23 Thread HdV
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > ps is probably the most inconsistent command in the entirety of Unix. > No, 'ps ux' won't work on Unix systems which take most of their heritage > from System V rather than BSD, and there is probably no one set of ps > arguments that will work everywhere.

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-23 Thread Anita Lewis
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:50:13PM +0200, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the > default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then browse this > file using my MUA ('c', '?', and then to '../', and '/News' etc. in > mutt). Saved articl

Re: insmod fails SiS900; No MII transceivers found! (rewritten andreposted)

2003-07-23 Thread Tim
Thomas Krennwallner wrote: Hi! On Tue Jul 22, 2003 at 11:51:07PM +0100, Tim wrote: I cannot insmod sis900 with a 2.2.20 or 2.4.18 kernel on a friends desktop. Do you # insmod sis900 or do you # modprobe sis900 ? Please do the modprobe since it resolves module depencies. I think that sis900 depe

Re: xterm colour codes

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:19:27AM +0100, David selby wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:44:57AM +0100, David selby wrote: > >>I cant find the control sequences document ctlseqs.ms, though I have > >>searched the system as root for it. > > > >.ms is the source form (it's a

Re: bash: can I cd from a script

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:17:58AM +0100, David selby wrote: > I have a script to show a certain directory, it would be great if that > script could change my pwd to that directory. > > Inside my script is a cd /usr/lo., however since the script > automaticly runs in a subshell, when it ends

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:31:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > ps is probably the most inconsistent command in the entirety of Unix. > > No, 'ps ux' won't work on Unix systems which take most of their heritage > > from System V rather than BSD, and

X, font problems (woody->sid)

2003-07-23 Thread Amit Shah
Hello all, [please cc: me] This is a repost, hope I get solutions this time: I have some X-related problems: 1. I get random images thrown all over the screen... if an html page is loading in the background, I'll portions of gifs/jpegs all over my screen, or the toolbars, scroll bars, etc... Th

Icons dissapearing in SId / KDE

2003-07-23 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Hi All, I installed Sid with KDE 3.1 on a machine yesterday evening (CET). The bug with ksysguard was just closed, and I managed to download the newest packages from www.debian.org in my /etc/apt/sources.list. So far so good. I got X running, including the xft font server, some truetype thingies,

Current status of Large File Support

2003-07-23 Thread sjm2413
Hello all, First, thanks for a great digest and many helpful responses. Because of you this is the first time I've run into a brick wall that I can't work my own way round. Scenario: G4U (cloning utility) is being used to clone our Windoze boxes to a Linux server running dhcp and wu-ftp 2.6.

RedHat more debian like?

2003-07-23 Thread Alfredo Valles
I've readed this article http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/4913/1/ It looks like RH will become more debian like in the sense that they will alow the community to mantain packages, and to participate in the development cycle of their products. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Adaptec 2940UW Pro

2003-07-23 Thread Frank
I have an Adaptec 2940UW Pro installed and have installed many OS's on my system. However, the Debian tells me to "take a hike" when I try to install on my system. I know that there has to be support for this controller as every other port of Linux has it. I'd really like to get the Debian to w

HDD and CDROM access hogs CPU

2003-07-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
Hi all... I've got something of a problem with my IDE controller (VIA 686B southbridge). Whenever I do anything that requires data transfer from one of the devices on it, system load goes to 2 or above while top doesn't show any serious CPU usage by any task; record was a load of 2.5 for copyin

Re: changing default runlevel dynamically

2003-07-23 Thread Jerry Quinn
Thomas Krennwallner writes: > Hi! > > On Wed Jul 23, 2003 at 10:10:13AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > How can I choose the runlevel dynamically at startup through lilo > > menus or otherwise? > > At the LILO Prompt (after press SHIFT at the LILO XX.YY.ZZ prompt) you > can append kernel p

Re: netenv doesn't do anything

2003-07-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 21:31:51 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I installed netenv on my laptop since I constantly move between > networks/proxy servers etc. > Only problem is that it doesn't seem to actually do anything other then > ask me what network to start on. > Couldn't see any environment var

Learning about X defaults (was Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???)

2003-07-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:38:08PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: [...] } Now that I have this working, what documentation of xdefaults and } xresources should I have on my debian boxen? [...] } I haven't delved into this side of X in several years. There are other } things, similar to this rema

mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Craig Tinson
Hey all.. I was wondering if anyone knew where mozilla stored it's user-defined filters.. Every time I re-install linux I manage to keep my mail (which is stored on another HD) but I always lose my filters I've searched everywhere but the lil buggers are eluding me.. Any info would be appreci

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 15:31, Craig Tinson wrote: > Every time I re-install linux I manage to keep my mail (which is > stored on another HD) but I always lose my filters Not an answer, but... why do you want to reinstall??? joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Henning Moll
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:21, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Now my problem is: Usually only I have the right to display a new window > on my screen, not any daemon user, no normal user and and certainly not > root. Any pointers how to do that? Suppose you know the user which is running the xserver (=$X

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Christian Schaefer
Craig Tinson wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew where mozilla stored it's user-defined filters.. Look at ~/.mozilla/default/sqql2sgp.slt/ImapMail// msgFilterRules.dat (if you're using imap). bye chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

gpm setup for two mice and x

2003-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I set up gpm to use two mice with different protocols and get it to repeat to x? I have a touchpad which acts as a serial mouse (autops2 seems to work for it) don't know exactly which one (sony vaio pcg laptop) and a logtech usb mouse. I configured X directly without regard to gpm and it w

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-23 Thread Kenneth Jacker
>> http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ mark> I would personally recommend the above link, as well, also put mark> testing in youre apt sources, as it needs a few packages from mark> there to install, but I've been running this for around 4 mark> weeks and it rocks (once

frame buffer for ati rage mobility ker 2.6.0-test1

2003-07-23 Thread Micha Feigin
Anyone have any experience with using a frame buffer for ati rage mobility video card, is it supported at all? The only one that seems to be recognise is the mach64 frame buffer (atyfb) but it doesn't function properly. When I build it as a module and insert it on the console I lose all text on the

Re: bash: can I cd from a script

2003-07-23 Thread David Z Maze
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:17:58AM +0100, David selby wrote: >> I have a script to show a certain directory, it would be great if that >> script could change my pwd to that directory. >> >> Inside my script is a cd /usr/lo., however since the script

Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

2003-07-23 Thread bob parker
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:26, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels. > > > > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits a

Re: bash: can I cd from a script

2003-07-23 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 07:36, David Z Maze wrote: > Depending on how complicated the script is, rewriting it as a shell > function might be appropriate. You could add to your .bashrc file > something like > > cdls() { cd "$1"; ls; } > > and then "cdls foo" would change directories to foo and l

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-23 Thread nori heikkinen
on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:43:37PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif insinuated: > Now, sequence does *not* matter, and I can scroll with my mouse > wheel in mutt -- just as long as I use xterm, instead of rxvt. i'm trying to figure out what you mean by this -- just that you can scroll upwards in your termina

Re: is a backport of Xfree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?

2003-07-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > >> http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/ > > mark> I would personally recommend the above link, as well, also put > mark> testing in youre apt sources, as it needs a few packages from > mark> there to install,

Re: Setting up eth0 - estrange behaviour on Woody

2003-07-23 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:15:53PM -0300, Valter G. Nogueira Jr. wrote: > Shaul Karl > > 200.152.201.242 is my internet address which I alredy tested with a Window > 98 machine. > > below are the outputs ifconfig and ping: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:CC:8D:65 > i

mouseclick blocking: rxvt vs. xterm ???

2003-07-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I have encountered an unexpected difference between rxvt and xterm. Suppose that I have a line: =computers/security/snort/current Under rxvt, when I double-click anywhere to the right of '=', I highlight and move to the buffer this: computers/security/snort/current Under xterm,

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 15:16, Christian Schaefer wrote: > Craig Tinson wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone knew where mozilla stored it's user-defined > > filters.. > > Look at ~/.mozilla/default/sqql2sgp.slt/ImapMail// This bit is actually randomly gen

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-23 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach nori heikkinen (Wed 23 Jul 02003 at 10:55:08AM -0400): > on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:43:37PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif insinuated: > > Now, sequence does *not* matter, and I can scroll with my mouse > > wheel in mutt -- just as long as I use xterm, instead of rxvt. > > i'm trying to figure

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Craig Tinson
I have 4 eamil accounts in mozilla being checked.. but unfortunately only one of them is imap.. the rest are pop3.. but I am certainly interested in moving all my folders (about 5,000 emails) to an imap server.. would make things a lot easier.. Cheers Craig Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Wed, 200

Re: gpm setup for two mice and x

2003-07-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:18:36PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: | How do I set up gpm to use two mice with different protocols and get it | to repeat to x? This is a little bit tricky, and not wholly pretty. | I have a touchpad which acts as a serial mouse (autops2 seems to work | for it) don't kno

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 07:21:17PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my > laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much > time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power > jack. I k

Re: mouse wheel scrolling in mutt ???

2003-07-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:55:08AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: | on Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:43:37PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif insinuated: | > Now, sequence does *not* matter, and I can scroll with my mouse | > wheel in mutt -- just as long as I use xterm, instead of rxvt. | | i'm trying to figure out

Re: ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

2003-07-23 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Nick Lidakis wrote: I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and above video cards. The release notes are exactly the same as the previous version, but I thought I might give them a spin since Xv was a bi

Re: mouseclick blocking: rxvt vs. xterm ???

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:00:29AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > I have encountered an unexpected difference between rxvt and xterm. > Suppose that I have a line: > > =computers/security/snort/current > > Under rxvt, when I double-click anywhere to the right of '=', I > highlight and m

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Craig Tinson
ahh.. found them.. they are in /blah/Mail/ too.. thanks for the help.. :) Cheers Craig Craig Tinson wrote: I have 4 eamil accounts in mozilla being checked.. but unfortunately only one of them is imap.. the rest are pop3.. but I am certainly interested in moving all my folders (about 5,000 e

paper size

2003-07-23 Thread nori heikkinen
trying to print things via enscript and mpage. they're both defaulting to a4 paper, and i can't figure out how to specify letter paper. with enscript, -M letter looks like it should work: -M name, --media=name Select an output media name. Enscript's default output

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-23 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
The way that is usually handled is when the process starts, you record the pid in a file in /var/run or /tmp. Then you grab the pid from that file when you need to check it. - Ryan On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 09:27:36AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:07:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PR

Re: paper size

2003-07-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--OgqxwSJOaUobr8KG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:47:08AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: > is there some environment variable i need set? this works fine on > other debian systems i use (that i did not, unfortunately, install > mys

Re: O.T. Replace motherboard ... advice anyone?

2003-07-23 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dan.Hunt wrote: > I'm looking to replace the motherboard CPU, and re-use many of the > other components of my old system. My old AMD Duron 800 has been > locking up after 3 years of faithful service. > > [ Snip ] > > I would like a "debian" opinion, as many keen eye's are bett

Re: paper size

2003-07-23 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:47:08AM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: > trying to print things via enscript and mpage. they're both > defaulting to a4 paper, and i can't figure out how to specify letter > paper. > > with enscript, -M letter looks like it should work: > > -M name, --media=name >

root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-23 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root device set to /dev/hda1 my "computer" boots up fine. With newer 2.4 kernel images (kernel-image-2.4-386, kernel-image-2.4.21-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386) I can't seem to boot. I've tried: root=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/targ

Re: root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-23 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 16:45, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root device set > to /dev/hda1 my "computer" boots up fine. With newer 2.4 kernel images > (kernel-image-2.4-386, kernel-image-2.4.21-1-386 > kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386) I can't seem to

Re: paper size

2003-07-23 Thread Ernest Johanson
Check /etc/papersize. Ernest Johanson Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, nori heikkinen wrote: > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:47:08 -0400 > From: nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: paper size > > trying to print

Where to put "Xft.autohint=1" to get enabled for all users ?

2003-07-23 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
Hello all, I want to enable autohint globally, where should I put "Xft.autohint: 1" to accomplish that ? (btw. it works ok currently having it in ~user/.Xresources) Thanx in advance, -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerp

Re: root device name w/kernel-image

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > With the kernel image from a disk (2.4.20-bf2.4) and the root device set > to /dev/hda1 my "computer" boots up fine. With newer 2.4 kernel images > (kernel-image-2.4-386, kernel-image-2.4.21-1-386 > kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386) I can't seem to boot. > > I've tried

help with dpkg --configure error message

2003-07-23 Thread Wookey
I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? At the moment I get this: stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# dpkg --configure proftpd Setting up pro

Re: help with dpkg --configure error message

2003-07-23 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking > about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious > message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? > > At the moment I get this: >

RE: Icons dissapearing in SId / KDE

2003-07-23 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
See below. Nobody with some clue? Pim -Original Message- From: Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 23 juli 2003 14:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Icons dissapearing in SId / KDE Hi All, I installed Sid with KDE 3.1 on a machine yesterday evening (CET).

Re: help with dpkg --configure error message

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by > poking about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a > tedious message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? > > At the moment I get this: >

Unable to configure PS/2 Mouse in woody!

2003-07-23 Thread SRIKANTH NS
Hi all, I installed debian woody (3.0 r0)after wiping RH7.3. Machine Celeron 900MHz, 128 MB RAM, i815e M/B ( Kobian brand ,16MB shared RAM) already having Win98 and MDK9.1. Installation went alright. Only X was the problem. Error message was that unix fontpath having problem. So I commented out t

Re: sendmail/SMTP-AUTH/PAM Solution!!!

2003-07-23 Thread Jeff Wiegley, PhD
Todd, I hope you don't mind but I'm copying your last message sent to me to the users lists because it did result in a solution. and its so simple that I want a permanent record of it in a searchable location. As anybody reading this will be able to see Todd did an excellent job figuring out

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-23 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:40:07PM +0200, Anita Lewis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:50:13PM +0200, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > > > I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the > > default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then browse this > > file using my MUA (

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-23 Thread Alan Connor
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 23 10:33:56 2003 X-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:40:08 PDT (newsmaster1.news.pas.earthlink.net) On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:50:13PM +0200, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the > default file (probably ~/N

Re: paper size

2003-07-23 Thread nori heikkinen
on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:56:36PM +0100, Antony Gelberg insinuated: > You could check the contents of /etc/papersize. letter > apropos paper, and then man papersize are two useful commands that > you might have tried. Not sure if that file is used by those > specific applications, but it's what I

Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed.Really?

2003-07-23 Thread Dan Jacobson
# apt-cache show fileutils Description: The GNU file management utilities (transitional package) Empty package to facilitate upgrades, can be safely removed. # apt-get remove fileutils The following packages will be REMOVED: alsa-modules-2.4.18-k7 fileutils kernel-doc-2.4.18 kernel-doc-2.4.19

[OT] Re: how to have a gpg public key?

2003-07-23 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Jeff Wiegley, Ph.D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030721 23:28]: > Bah dum ba... > > 1st: A problem with this list is its huge signal to noise ratio. Wow, we're doing pretty well if a huge S/N ratio is considered a problem around here! Personally, I'd say people fscking up the threads is a real problem

Re: configuring DHCLIENT-2.2.x

2003-07-23 Thread Lars Unin
-- > > This is the part where I get completely confused, when you say > "doesn't in Woody." You booted a Woody install kernel (2.2.x), Actually I used a 2.4. - bf series woody installer you > configured your network card with it, got a DHCP address, downloaded > packages and so on. Then what

Re: Unable to configure PS/2 Mouse in woody!

2003-07-23 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello SRIKANTH NS wrote: > I installed debian woody (3.0 r0)after wiping RH7.3. Machine Celeron > 900MHz, 128 MB RAM, i815e M/B ( Kobian brand ,16MB shared RAM) already > having Win98 > and MDK9.1. > > Installation went alright. Only X was the problem. > Error message was that unix fontpath havi

error upgrading debconf in debian unstable - python2.2: invalidoption -- O

2003-07-23 Thread johan
Hello! I have problems upgrading to debconf 1.3.4. I get the following error message: Setting up debconf (1.3.4) ... python2.2: invalid option -- O Try `python2.2 --help' for more information. dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit s

Important!

2003-07-23 Thread rayhab
I need to get an operating system to fit on one rw cd. I need to throw out any extra files such as games. I have Mandrake Linux & the ISO version but the rpm files take up 2GB which is way to big to fit on one cd.   Does Debian have anything that I can use such as making it auto exe on a cd

Re: Important!

2003-07-23 Thread Henning Moll
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 23:59, rayhab wrote: > I need to get an operating system to fit on one rw cd. You can try knoppix. It's based on debian. For more information look at http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html There you will also find information where to get iso-images... Regards Henn

Re: sendmail/SMTP-AUTH/PAM Solution!!!

2003-07-23 Thread Todd Pytel
On 23 Jul 2003 10:07:41 -0700 "Jeff Wiegley, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd, > > I hope you don't mind but I'm copying your last message > sent to me to the users lists because it did result in a > solution. and its so simple that I want a permanent record > of it in a searchable loca

Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed

2003-07-23 Thread Alan Connor
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 23 10:29:04 2003 Minor correction to the function in my last post: Capitalize Linux in Linux.debian.user For some reason slrn capitalizes the first character in the in a newsgroup name when it stores it in ../News/misc Don't know why it even worked as well as i

Advise on avoiding spammers

2003-07-23 Thread Mark C
Hi, I run my own small email server for my home network using sendmail (fully patched), I have set it up to deny relaying for another domain apart from my own, just lately I've been getting a lot of spam from China and Taiwan, most are forging the from address (naturally), below are some examples:

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #2112

2003-07-23 Thread John Stevenson
Hi all, Installation went alright. Only X was the problem. Error message was that unix fontpath having problem. So I commented out the line unixfontpath :7100 in /etc/XF86Config-4 file. Again errors, this time mouse goes unrecognised. It is a PS2 Logitech Mouse in a PS/2 port. It was detected wi

gnome-pilot sync problems

2003-07-23 Thread Dominique Deleris
Hello, It seems that gnome-pilot is not suddenly working properly in SID : it goes into what seems to me an infinite loop after sync a few addresses. Calendar and Tasks are still syncing correctly, only addresses are not. Has anybody experienced the same issue? Any hints/workaround? I've looked

Re: Automatic renice

2003-07-23 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Mardi 22 Juillet 2003 02:41, Johannes Zarl a déclamé : > The program ``pidof'' could help you in getting the list of > xmms-processes: $ pidof xmms Thanks, that will make my scripts trivial to make :-) -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E

ssh, bash and mysql, odd behaviour of polish characters (iso-8859-2)

2003-07-23 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi, I am seeing odd behaviour when pasting polish characters into an ssh session running in an xterm (or konsole). I haven't had to bother with charset issues before so my grasp of the problems is not great. I need to be able to enter some polish characters on the command line (through mysql

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